Earth's changing climate has become the foremost challenge for the survival of the human community. If we are going to learn to survive we need first to lean what is happening to our world and then to devise collective means of adapting to our changed circumstance in order to minimize human suffering and design a sustainable future as a human community.

To begin we will need to learn how to investigate the kinds of change that are occurring in our climate and global environment. Further, we need to learn to see how these changes are connected with one another to create new kinds of climate vulnerability for local, national and international systems upon which we all depend.

This course will help participants to develop skills of inquiry to locate and assess information from reliable sources on climate vulnerability both online and in printed sources of documentation. This scientific evidence will need to be sourced and cited correctly and so that we can each help to devise effective public policy to address our climate vulnerability. Particular attention will be given to how participants can become involved through "Climate Ready Boston" -- Boston's official initiative to develop resilient solutions to prepare our city for climate change.